COMPOSER SABRINA PENA YOUNG | MUSIC TECHNOLOGY | FILM | CLASSICAL | OPERA

Formidable Composer Eric Whitacre 1. You try to tell the time signature of your blinker as you drive 2. You wonder if Mozart would have Tweeted 3. You ruin movies by complaining about how John Williams steals from Wagner and Stravinsky 4. Your significant other has been relegated to long diatribes about the merits of classical music over pop music 5. Said significant other has also been dragged to numerous classical music concerts, including at least one that involved a laptop or singing robot 6. You can't resist saying "I'll be Bach" when you leave the party 7. You have an appreciation for Schoenberg and Cage that your music ed friends do not understand 8. You ever conducted the radio with a pencil in your car, while driving and drinking a cup of coffee 9. Your children grow up listening to Mozart...AND Stravinsky, Shostakovich, and Mendelssohn 10. You are used to the semi-surprised look of shock when you tell your friends that you are a composer 11. Y...

Opera by You Uses Crowdsourcing to create new innovative opera . Opera by You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9fjLZtzJOA Sabrina Pena Young sabrinapenayoung.blogspot.com WATCH THE FULL VERSION: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JJ9b3CYsqs Crowdsourced Opera? Machinima Musicals? Telematic Performances? The 21st Century composer explores new technology to create innovative works in this EXCITING short documentary by futurist filmmaker and award-winning composer Sabrina Pena Young. Works of Pauline Oliveros , Alex Shapiro , Robert Voisey and 60x60 , Lee Scott's The Village Opera, Opera by You, Eric Whitacre , and More. OFFICIAL COMPOSER WEBSITE: http://sabrinapenayoung.blogspot.com/ ORIGINAL TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE: https://www.scribd.com/doc/262447249/Music-Documentary-The-Opera-Heard-Round-the-World-Internet-Collaboration-and-the-21st-Century-Composer-Documentary-TRANSCRIPT WATCH LIBERTARIA: The Virtual Opera https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Cover of Pauline Oliveros What has been most interesting with the aftermath of creating the world's first machinima Opera Libertaria:The Virtual Opera has been the resulting interest in virtual production. Online collaboration used for Libertaria has proven that one does not need a massive budget or even extensive opera company connections to create a large scale opera project. I have spoken about virtual production in various places including Buffalo State and the Hartford Women Composer's festival. An upcoming article in the Percussive Arts Society periodical Percussive Notes goes into further details about the opera's online collaboration and how it is possible today for the contemporary musician to create astonishing works with a little bit of technology and imagination on their side. English: Icebreaker live at Queen Elisabeth Hall, September 2010 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) There's been much debate on whether classical music has essentially buried it...

In the 21st century, composers can find talented individuals through virtual auditions. What is a virtual audition? A virtual audition can be defined, loosely, as an audition that takes place in a virtual space or is not conducting "live" like a traditional audition. Today auditions are being created through Youtube, like Eric Whitacre 's Virtual Choir auditions online, through e-mail, or even through online A&R services like Music Xray. You might want to set up a Skype audition or an audition through Google. Is a virtual audition easy to set up? Yes, and usually it is low or no cost to set up.    Cast members for Libertaria: The Virtual Opera were selected through virtual auditions. There are distinct challenges when dealing in the digital world, especially if the audition is for a live part. For example, an actor or singer might submit a perfectly edited video or sound clip, but in reality may be incredible terrible for the part. That is why it is is import...

Today I am giving a lecture at Buffalo State on Making of a 21st Century Opera: Libertaria . The question about the future of opera amidst budget cuts, economic downturn, and an ever expanding availability of musical choices has led those musicians who write large scale forms of music like symphonies, operas , oratorios, and ballets to find other creative outlets including online media, film music, royalty-free music libraries, jingles, and production.  BELOW Perry R. Cook and Matt Meadows lend their voices for "Metal Ink" from Libertaria: The Virtual Opera. After each soloist recorded their vocals, Patrick Rundbladh and I combined their vocal takes into a single solo where the character sings in duet with himself.  The question is if large scale traditional musical productions are viable today. When I began work on Libertaria: The Virtual Opera a couple of years ago, I wanted to create an opera that not only was feasible but was incredibly portable. T...